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overflow-hidn article-lumn"><div class="streamfield article-body"><!--[--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-embed streamfield-embed-fualt streamfield-paragraph mb-7"><p>On a cloudy Saturday late May, several hundred activists gathered on the Riegelmann Boardwalk Brighton Beach to send a msage to their neighbors the Rsian-speakg muny: we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not gog anywhere. </p><p>Ntled on Brooklyn’s southern shore, Brighton Beach, a.k.a. “Ltle Ossa,” has served as a sort of p-stop for migrants om the former Soviet Unn for s. Although the neighborhood’s nickname was earned after a new wave of former Soviet migrants settled the area startg the 1970s, the mographics of newers have changed over time. </p><p>Wh <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 70 percent</a> of the populatn born abroad, Eastern European culture ns ep. “There is a borough New York where we n go bee we’ll be Rsia aga,” noted Elvira Brodskaya, a lbian origally om St. Petersburg. But that faiary n be a double-edged sword. Here, on the southern shor of Brooklyn, bly, pelmeni, and borscht n be found abundance, but so n some of the regn’s more nservative and reprsive attus.</p><p>The march was led by RUSA-LGBT, an activist anizatn found by Yelena Goltsman 2008, which has rved out a niche for self as beg one of the few Rsian-speakg LGBTQ-advocy groups the Uned Stat terg to emigr om the former Soviet Unn, and s members are as diverse as the former Soviet regn self. Here, Azerbaijanis, Ukraians, Geians, Uzbeks, Rsians, and numero other natnali are uned through their shared language and their mon e: human rights for all. </p><p>Goltsman creds RUSA-LGBT -print Lyosha Gorshkov as beg the drivg force behd Brighton Beach Pri. Gorshkov—a former profsor at Perm State Universy the Urals—ced both Tmp’s electn and exasperatn wh the rampant homophobia Rsian-speakg enclav Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, and Kgs Highway. Dpe g to the Uned Stat July 2014 an effort to flee anti-gay persecutn, he and other LGBTQ Rsian-speakg rints say verbal and physil abe ntue to be very real problems here Brooklyn. </p><p>“I got angry, thkg, we had managed to pe om homophobia our untri, and we were still unsafe those Rsian-speakg areas NYC,” Gorshkov said. “It was a flashback to the Soviet Unn... You nnot believe how many tim I have heard [the] ‘f’ word here.”</p><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: le;"></span></p><div class="image-none"><img alt="" src=" width="640" height="395"><br><i> (Hannah Gais / Gothamist)</i></div><p></p><p>It was clear om the begng that, while RUSA-LGBT has had a strong prence at the ma New York Pri march for years, Brighton Beach is not Manhattan. Safety was an obv ncern, and the small phalanx of NYPD officers that greeted me as I walked om the Q tra stop at Ocean Parkway remaed a nstant prence as we wanred down the boardwalk. Although the event took place largely whout a hch, some onlookers weren’t necsarily iendly observers. RTVi, a Rsian-language televisn work, spoke to one bystanr who openly advoted for stratn; another asserted the event was an “embarrassment.” </p><p>At the rally, journalist Masha Gsen praised the participants for proudly marchg the face of such timidatn. “Pri is polil," Gsen said. "Pri is about gog to a place where n be ighteng, where not everyone has e to see LGBTQ people as human begs. But ’s also what solidary looks like."</p><p>The neighborhood’s first Rsian-speakg pri para at a ntent time for both Amerin and Rsian polics—Brighton Beach was one of the few New York Cy districts to swg heavily for Tmp. In addn the smatterg of “No Tmp / No KKK” and “Drive Out the Pence/Tmp Regime” signs that have bee stapl at nearly any left-of-center prott the Tmp era, marchers ma a pot of portrayg the two officials as cut om a siar cloth. One chant, a nod to Brighton’s polil proclivi, pronounced: “Brighton-Brighton, we love you! Tmp and Put—bad for you!” </p><p>Gorshkov se a direct nnectn between support for Tmp and Rsian Print Vladimir Put. “I was not surprised though that Brighton Beach voted for [Tmp],” he noted, “as many people livg there are attracted to Put even though they never lived a mute unr the Put’s regime.” Many of the Pri marchers, cludg Gorshkov and several speakers, are recent recipients of asylum stat, while many of their olr neighbors have been livg the U.S. for s. </p><p>In addn to targetg Put, the Brighton Beach march lled attentn to the ongog, ernment-sponsored extermatn of the gay muny Chechnya, Rsia’s tumultuo semi-tonomo southern republic. In early April, Novaya Gazeta—a Rsian newspaper known for s vtigative work—reported that nearly 100 men had been taed “ nnectn wh their nontradnal sexual orientatn, or spicn of such.” Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has sce nied the allegatns, and one of his spokmen even went so far as to assert that such reports were prepostero bee sexual mori “jt don’t exist the republic.” </p><p>As the rally me to a close and participants drifted off, some leisurely wanrg to a LGBTQ-iendly fe up the street, I ught up wh Goltsman. “This is what pri looks like. 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primo gay pride

Era il 5 aprile l 1972 quando a Sanremo, Liguria, andò aspettatamente scena il primo Gay Pri d'Italia. Ec la storia l LGBT+ History Month

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GAY PRI

Dai primi moti di liberazne gay alla bandiera arbaleno: tutte le tappe l Gay Pri per pire da dove viene e perché è sì importante quta parata. * primo gay pride *

All’epo si chiamava «Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March» e memorava i moti di Stonewall: le rivolte sppiate Christopher Street, nel Greenwich Village di New York, quando la polizia provò a far chiure lo Stonewall Inn, un pub gto dalla mafia e equentato da gay, lbiche, travte e transgenr. Come Mark Segal, uno i primi attivisti l Gay Liberatn Front: «È stato rivoluznar e oti e tutto quello che abbiamo fatto il primo anno dopo i disordi di Stonewall» racnta. 169 persone si riversarono strada ntando slogan sulla liberazne gay, n addosso stumi di Halloween, «o quasi niente», rri allegorici fai-da-te raffiguranti vasi di vasela e un uomo gay su una croce.

Senza assicurazne sanaria negli Usa sta oltre duea dollari al me ed è accsibile a gran parte gli uomi gay di lore che hanno i tassi di ntag più alti. Nel lole di Stonewall Inn Christopher Street, nel Greenwich Village di Manhattan, avvenne una retata lla polizia che sottopose gli avventori l pub a uianti perquisizni, fatte per accertare che gay, lbiche, travti e transgenr dossassero almeno tre dumenti rrisponnti al propr sso e preveva la legge, dal momento che il drscrossg — la prati cè di vtire al ntrar rispetto al genere rinosciuto dalla legge — era Gay Pri ha orige dal moto di protta di Stonewall Inn l 28 giugno Eason//Getty ImagQuti abi erano purtroppo equenti e nsenti dalla legge, ma quella sera per la prima volta la unà Lgbtq+ cise di ribellarsi e un'allora gvanissima Sylvia Rivera, che sarebbe divenuta famosa nell'ambo ll'attivismo per i dirti transgenr, lanciò una srpa ntro la polizia. Da un sentimento di ranre ed asperazne (all'iz la maniftazne era chiamata "Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March") qute protte si tramutarono, a partire dal 1970, vere e proprie celebrazni ll'intà gay, da tenrsi non più e qualsa di sbagliato da nasnre e ndannare, ma e una lle tante clazni lla Natura, che per tutte le sue specie, anche quella umana, ha previsto la diversà bandiera arbaleno è stata disegnata dall’artista e attivista gilbert baker nel McNew//Getty ImagI lori lla bandiera arbaleno, disegnata dall'artista e attivista Gilbert Baker e dal 1978 simbolo l Gay Pri, voglno rapprentare propr quta liberazne, quta gia di mostrarsi per quello che si è, senza temere pregiudizi, od e discrimazne da parte lla società, che per troppo tempo ha imposto regole e nvenzni su e le persone dovsero portarsi o vtire, obbligando migliaia di omossuali e transgenr a vergognarsi lle proprie clazni e a temere il giudiz gli altri.

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Per quto è necsar mantenere la guardia alta e schierarsi sempre dalla parte i dirti civili, anche partecipando all'annuale parata gay, che da 51 anni rapprenta una rottura gsa n il passato, un modo ftoso per rirdare a se stsi e al mondo le proprie libertà fondamentali e un gran emp di e sia possibile trasformare una narrazne discrimatoria e tossi una narrazne di gia. Erano passati tre anni dalla sidtta “rivolta di Stonewall”, i due grni cui a New York nacque, di fatto, il movimento di liberazne gay nel mondo e lo tendiamo oggi, e l’Italia, n Sanremo, divenne un nuovo onte ldo: grnali e telegrnali dirono alla protta amp spaz e la maniftazne ebbe risalto ternaznale, diventando una sorta di “Stonewall aliana”.

E a Sanremo, ctà cui tutto è parto nel non poi sì lontano 1972, sabato 9 aprile si è tenuto il primo Sanremo Pri anizzato da Arcigay al motto di “L’ogl torna a Sanremo”. La Storia l PriLa bandiera che sventolò al primo Gay PriMatrimon e unni civiliDirti negatiIl podst da asltare prima di andare al PriA che punto siamo Italia? È stato istuo seguo ai Moti di Stonewall, una rivolta spontanea che si svolse a New York per alcuni grni a partire dal 28 giugno l 1969, data cui la polizia fece irzne nello Stonewall Inn, un bar gay l Greenwich Village.

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Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * primo gay pride *

Harvey Milk, il primo poli apertamente omossuale eletto negli Usa, ricò l’artista Gilbert Baker di creare un simbolo per la unà gay, da utilizzare al posto i triangolo rosa imposto dai nazisti nei mpi di ncentramento. Si tola Inverti, è firmato da Cathy La Torre e Guglielmo Scilla e racnta ve di gay, lbiche o transgenr che hanno fatto picle, grandi rivoluzni.

L sta per “lbian”, G per gay, B per “bisexual”; T per “transgenr”, Q per “Queer”, un aggettivo che letteralmente signifi “eccentri” e che pren tutti quelli che non sono eterossuali e cisgenr. The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people.

U.S. DIPLOMAT STICKS IT TO ANTI-GAY PRIME MISTER—WH A HUGE PRI PARTYPRIDE AND PREJUDICEMEMBERS OF VIKTOR ORBáN’S ERNMENT—WHICH HAS ADOPTED ANTI-LGBT POLICI—ARE WELE TO JO.DAN LADN-HALLNEWS CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 15, 2023 4:31AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 14, 2023 10:55PM EDT EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTYDAVID PRSMAN, THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY, HAS NOT SHIED AWAY OM LLG OUT THE ANTI-LGBT RHETORIC AND POLICI OF HUNGARIAN PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBáN AND HIS ERNMENT. SCE HIS ARRIVAL BUDAPT LAST YEAR, THE GAY HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER HAS BEEN RELENTLSLY CRICIZED BY THE UNTRY’S STATE-NTROLLED MEDIA FOR WHAT THEY PERCEIVE AS HIS PROVOTIVE PROPAGANDIZG OF PROGRSIVE WTERN VALU TO A PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SHARE THEM.HIS WEEKEND PLANS SEEM LIKELY TO SPARK ANOTHER ROUND OF VECTIVE. ON SUNDAY, HE WILL MARK THE END OF BUDAPT PRI MONTH BY HOSTG A PIIC AT HIS OFFICIAL RINCE FOR HUNGARIAN LGBTQI+ FAI—A CELEBRATN OF A MUNY WHO, UNR ORBáN, ARE BEG MA TO FEEL CREASGLY UNWELE THEIR HOMELAND.“CANDIDLY, WE’VE BEEN PRETTY OVERWHELMED BY THE TERT PARTICIPATN OM HUNGARIAN LGBT FAI AND THEIR ALLI—AND I EXPECT ABOUT 1,000 PEOPLE THERE, MAKG WHAT WE’RE TOLD WILL BE THE LARGT EVENT OF S KD HISTORY HUNGARY,” PRSMAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “AND I THK NOW’S A REALLY IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE UNED STAT AND THE TERNATNAL MUNY WR LARGE TO STAND WH THIS MUNY THAT IS CREASGLY BEG ED A DIVISIVE AND POLIL WAY THAT IS TENSN WH THE MMENTS THIS ERNMENT HAS MA TO UPHOLDG TERNATNAL HUMAN RIGHTS.”HIS MENTS ON FRIDAY ME HOURS AFTER DOZENS OF EMBASSI HUNGARY RELEASED A JOT STATEMENT EXPRSG SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQI+ MUNY THE UNTRY “AND THEIR RIGHTS TO EQUALY AND NON-DISCRIMATN, EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY, AND EEDOM OM VLENCE.” THE LL FOR SUPPORT IS TIMELY. THIS WEEK, HUNGARY’S LARGT BOOKSELLER, LIBRI, BEGAN WRAPPG BOOKS PLASTIC IF THE WORK CLUS LGBT CHARACTERS TO STOP BROWSG SHOPPERS OPENG THEM STOR. THE RETAIL CHA SAID WAS DOG SO PLIANCE WH A 2021 SO-LLED “CHILD PROTECTN” LAW WHICH BANNED THE “DISPLAY AND PROMOTN OF HOMOSEXUALY” TO CHILDREN UNR THE AGE OF 18. ANOTHER BOOKSELLER WAS FED ON THURSDAY FOR SELLG A GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT A LOVE STORY BETWEEN TWO TEENAGE BOYS BEE WAS FOR SALE THE CHILDREN’S SECTN. HUNGARIAN PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBAN SPEAKS DURG HIS TRADNAL NEW YEAR PRS NFERENCE AT HIS NEW OFFICE, BUDA CASTLE'S CARMELA MONASTERY, ON JAN. 9, 2020, BUDAPT. ATTILA KISBENEK/GETTY “WE’RE AT A MOMENT WHERE WE’RE SEEG EVENTS UNFOLD CLUDG BOOKSTOR BEG FED FOR DISPLAYG BOOKS, WE’RE SEEG BOOKS BEG WRAPPED CELLOPHANE TO TRY TO SOMEHOW SIGNIFY THAT THE NTENT OF THOSE BOOKS IS SOMETHG THAT NEEDS TO BE SEGREGATED,” PRSMAN SAID. “WE’RE SEEG REAL ATTACKS ON THE DIGNY OF THIS MUNY, AND SO WE THOUGHT WAS IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO BRG TOGETHER LGBT FAI FOR A CELEBRATN.”EXACTLY HOW THE PIIC WILL BE RECEIVED BY HIS HUNGARIAN HOSTS IS ANOTHER MATTER. AFTER HIS SPEECH LAST MONTH AT THE BUDAPT PRI OPENG EVENT, ONE PRO-ERNMENT OUTLET ACCED PRSMAN OF “TRYG TO MAKE PEDOPHILIA PC.” BUT PRSMAN SAYS THE ATTACKS—MONLY THE FORM OF ACCATNS OF “WOKEISM”—E REGARDLS OF WHAT HE SPEAKS ABOUT. “THE RPONSE IS OFTEN THE ERNMENT SAYG: ‘YOU’RE SPEAKG ABOUT LGBT ISSU,’ OR, ‘YOU’RE PHG A WOKE AGENDA,’” HE SAYS. “AND THAT ULDN’T BE FURTHER OM THE TTH.” “UNFORTUNATELY, I DON’T EXPECT THEM TO PARTICIPATE.” BEFORE BEG SWORN TO HIS CURRENT ROLE AUGT, PRSMAN PREVLY SERVED AS THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNED NATNS FOR SPECIAL POLIL AFFAIRS AND AS AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURY. HE’S ALSO WORKED WH ACTOR GEE CLOONEY—WHO LLS HIM “CUZ”—AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CLOONEY FOUNDATN FOR JTICE.THE HOSTILY TOWARD HIM HUNGARY BEGAN BEFORE HE EVEN ARRIVED THE UNTRY. LAST JULY, A BOAT SAILED DOWN THE RIVER DANUBE BUDAPT CLOSE TO THE SE OF THE U.S. EMBASSY RRYG A SKULL AND CROSSBON BANNER MARKED WH THE WORDS “MR. PRSMAN, DON’T LONIZE HUNGARY WH YOUR CULT OF ATH.” (HE NOW DISPLAYS A PHOTO OF THE PIRATIL WELE HIS OFFICE.)DPE THE PERSONAL ATTACKS, HE’S NOT TAKG CRICISMS OF HIS ACTNS PERSONALLY. “THIS IS REALLY NOT ABOUT ME, AND ’S NEVER BEEN ABOUT ME,” HE SAID. “IT’S ABOUT THE UNED STAT’ LONGSTANDG MMENT AND PRINT BIN’S PERSONAL MMENT TO STAND UP PROUDLY AND STRONGLY FOR THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, CLUDG LGBT PEOPLE—CLUDG LGBT PEOPLE HUNGARY.”HE NEVERTHELS NCES THAT THERE ARE “CHALLENG OUR RELATNSHIP WH HUNGARY” AND THAT THOSE CHALLENG MANIFT “ WAYS THAT ARE AT TIM TENSE AND UNIQUE—CERTALY UNIQUE AMONGST ALLI.” DAVID PRSMAN, US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY, ADDRS A PRS NFERENCE AT THE EMBASSY BUILDG BUDAPT, HUNGARY ON APRIL 12, 2023.ATTILA KISBENEK/GETTY LIKEWISE, PRSMAN HAS AT TIM TAKEN UNIQUE STEPS RPONSE TO CERTA ISSU. OF PARTICULARLY PRSG NCERN IS ORBáN’S HAB OF PHG KREML NARRATIV—MUCH TO THE NSTERNATN OF OTHER NATO MEMBERS—AND HIS PERSONAL FONDNS FOR RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT. ON PRSMAN’S WATCH, HIS EMBASSY OCTOBER RELEASED A TWTER QUIZ ASKG PEOPLE TO GUS IF A SERI OF ANTI-AMERIN QUOT—CLUDG A LL FOR WAR WH THE U.S.—ME OM PUT OR HUNGARIAN ERNMENT FIGUR. (SPOILER: THEY WERE ALL OM HUNGARIANS.) AND LAST MONTH, PRSMAN QUOTETWEETED A POST OM ORBáN REFERRG TO GEE SOROS’ SON AS “SOROS 2.0.” “THE DOG-WHISTLE NSPIRACY THEORI ARE LIKE THE PLOT OF GODFATHER 3: PREDICTABLE & TROUBLG,” PRSMAN WROTE.RSIA’S WAR UKRAE IS A PARTICULARLY ACUTE STRA ON DIPLOMATIC RELATNS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND HUNGARY. IN NTRAST WH OTHER NATO LEARS, ORBáN HATED NMNG PUT’S WAR AND HAS OPPOSED EU PLANS TO SEND MORE FANCIAL AID TO KYIV. ON FRIDAY, AFTER RETURNG OM A NATO SUMM LHUANIA, THE PRIME MISTER EVEN CLAIMED “THE WT WANTS WAR” AND BLAMED THE ONGOG BLOODSHED UKRAE ON THE U.S. “IF THE AMERINS WANTED PEACE,” ORBáN SAID A RAD TERVIEW, “THERE WOULD BE PEACE TOMORROW MORNG.”CROSSROADS“I THK THAT WE HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT THE UNED STAT WANTS PEACE, WE WANT THIS WAR TO END,” PRSMAN SAID. “THE PERSON WHO N END THIS WAR—TODAY—IS VLADIMIR PUT. AND ’S UNFORTUNATE WHEN WE SEE POLIL ACTORS CLUDG, THIS SE, THE PRIME MISTER, SUGGTG THAT ’S THE UNED STAT THAT IS SOMEHOW DRIVG THIS WAR. THAT ULD NOT BE FURTHER OM THE TTH.”“WE’RE A MOMENT WHERE THE STAK ARE EXTREMELY HIGH,” PRSMAN NTUED. “THERE’S A LAND WAR EUROPE. THERE’S A WAR NEXT DOOR THIS UNTRY AND FACTS MATTER. AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT VLADIMIR PUT STOPPED FIGHTG, THE WAR WOULD END TODAY, AND IF THE UKRAIANS STOPPED FIGHTG, UKRAE WOULD END.”THE AMBASSADOR ADD THAT “THE WORLD CHANGED” WH THE BEGNG OF THE VASN LAST YEAR. “HUNGARY I THK HAS HISTORILLY FELT FORTABLE OCCUPYG A MIDDLE ROAD BETWEEN EAST AND WT, THERE ARE REAL CHOIC TO BE MA,” PRSMAN SAID. “AND THE UNED STAT IS PAYG CLOSE ATTENTN TO THE CHOIC HUNGARY IS MAKG, AND I THK ’S TE—’S UNNIABLE—THAT HUNGARY IS MAKG CHOIC THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN OUR OTHER ALLI AND PARTNERS THE REGN, AND THAT’S THE SUBJECT OF TENSIVE ENGAGEMENT BY THE UNED STAT AND AN AREA WHERE I AM FOCED.”ANY PRENT TENSNS BETWEEN WASHGTON, D.C. AND BUDAPT NOTWHSTANDG, PRSMAN REMAS OPTIMISTIC THAT “THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE SEE THEIR FUTURE WH THE WT.” THIS WEEKEND, AT THE PIIC, HE HOP THAT THE HUNGARIAN ERNMENT SE THE “BETIFUL DIVERSE ARRAY” OF S OWN PEOPLE TOO. FAI, HE ADDS, “WHO ARE LIVG HAPPY AND FULFILLG LIV, WHO ARE ADVANCG THE VERY HUNGARIAN VALU THAT THIS ERNMENT STANDS FOR.”THE AMBASSADOR SAYS VATNS FOR THE LGBTQI+ EVENT HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO SENR OFFICIALS ORBáN’S ERNMENT. WHETHER THEY SHOW UP OR NOT IS A SEPARATE QUTN. “UNFORTUNATELY, I DON’T EXPECT THEM TO PARTICIPATE,” PRSMAN SAID. “BUT THEY SHOULD CERTALY KNOW THEY ARE WELE.” DAN LADN-HALL

Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * primo gay pride *

Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement.

La storia l Gay Pri si per nella notte i tempi, quando il primo uomo sulla terra sentì l'igenza di fastidire il rto ll'umanà rirdando a tutti gli eterossuali le gie di sere ricchne. Nacquero sì simpatiche maniftazni reografiche il cui spo era dimostrare a tutti che gay è bello, ribando importanti ncetti e: "il pisello è m e me lo gtis , e dove filarlo lo cido ". * primo gay pride *

As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event.

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